Test 10 · Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter…

Why is a queen bumblebee seen in early spring alone, not with a colony?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: see · To what, where: queen bumblebee

This is test 10 of lesson 305 «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 seen	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux:pass
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bumblebee	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bumblebee	compound
5	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	nsubj
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 spring	case
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spring	amod
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obl
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 seen	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 colony	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 colony	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 colony	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 colony	det
15	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · passive		a queen bumblebee			spring	alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She was thrown out of the hive by the other bees for being lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thrown	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 hive	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hive	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hive	det
7	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 bees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bees	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bees	amod
11	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thrown	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 lazy	case
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 lazy	cop
14	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive	the other bees	She		the hive			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme out hive=Destination
2	is	gerund						lazy property	tree rules

Option 2

Bumblebees always live alone for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Bumblebees					for life; alone, always property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She slept through winter and now starts a new nest by herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 winter	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 starts	cc
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 starts	advmod
7	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slept	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nest	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nest	amod
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 starts	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	She				winter		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	present	She not said here	a new nest			now	by herself = she	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality

Option 4

All the other bees are on holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bees	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bees	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bees	amod
4	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 holiday	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 holiday	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 holiday	case
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all other bees			holiday			tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/t10/